Few know the name of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) today, but along with his musical partner Richard Rodgers, they were the most famous Broadway songwriting duo in the first half of the twentieth century.
The new Lorenz Hart biopic “Blue Moon” gets a lot right about the creation of musicals that a spate of 1940s films got wildly wrong. By Jesse Green Among the many bad movie genres spawned by Hollywood ...
The long career of the great musical theater composer Richard Rodgers was split neatly into two phases. In the 1920s and ’30s, he wrote a string of hit Broadway shows with the lyricist Lorenz Hart, ...